US 11,991,216 B1
Policy-based cloud asset and security management system
Badrinath Venkatachari, Cupertino, CA (US)
Assigned to Ariksa, Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Ariksa, Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Jan. 27, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/102,499.
Application 18/102,499 is a continuation in part of application No. 17/235,795, filed on Apr. 20, 2021, abandoned.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/012,714, filed on Apr. 20, 2020.
Int. Cl. H04L 9/40 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 63/205 (2013.01) 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A policy-based security method for managing security policies in a cloud environment of enterprises in a de-centralized manner, the method comprising:
creating cloud-independent policies associated with enterprise assets in the cloud environment of enterprises;
sharing the cloud-independent policies across one or more distributed enterprises in the cloud environment of enterprises by:
identifying and categorizing rules of a policy of the cloud-independent policies;
identifying teams and users of an enterprise that a policy blueprint of the policy is shared with;
determining accessibility and customization rules for the identified teams and users; and
making the identified rules of the blueprint available to the identified teams and users based on the determined accessibility and customization rules;
translating and enforcing the cloud-independent policies in run-time across the one or more enterprises; and
applying the cloud-independent policies collaboratively in the distributed enterprises based on distributing policy enforcement in the one or more enterprises while centralizing policy operations.